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Hello, and welcome to Misplaced Pages. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -- Graham ☺ | Talk 13:49, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Current events

Hi hello, would you be interested to contribute to Current events in Hong Kong and Macao? You may also be interested to take a look at Misplaced Pages:HK wikipedians' notice board. best, — Instantnood 12:01, Feb 5 2005 (UTC)

Chinese names

Hello. I saw an abundancy of Chinese names had been speard out in the articles after your editing. Tsing Yi is a very good example. The way you add the Chinese names in paratheses, however, is sometimes tedious to readers. I suggest you should:

• Use an English tranliteration or pinyin instead of a Chinese name:

e.g. Chinese name was changed to 嶺南學堂 ===> Chinese name was changed to Lingnan Xuetang (嶺南學堂)

• Hide up X's Chinese name if this is not the MAIN ARTICLE of X.

Though Chinese names are sometimes necessary to show previous phrases are sheer translation.

e.g. :The motto of Sun Yat-sen University is "Study extensively; Enquire accurately; Reflect carefully; Discriminate clearly; Practise earnestly" (博學、審問、慎思、明辨、篤行).

I hope this brief guideline would help you in your further editing. :-D -- Jerry Crimson Mann 5 July 2005 13:37 (UTC)

Certainly you can. Another way to make the article to look neater, though, is to add: < ! - - - - XXXX - - - - -> -- Jerry Crimson Mann 5 July 2005 14:16 (UTC)

When others are dealing with unwikified articles, they still can see those Chinese names in the editing page. -- Jerry Crimson Mann 5 July 2005 14:16 (UTC)

lit.

Hi! Seen you have used lit. like this in several times:

CHINESENAME, lit. CHINESELIT.

lit. is an abbreviation, and the way you use it in declarative sentences is undesirable. Here're two ways I sugget you follow:

• CHINESENAME (lit. CHINESELIT).
• CHINESENAME, which literally means CHINESELIT.

Find me if you have a question or disagreement. :-) -- Jerry Crimson Mann 9 July 2005 16:00 (UTC)

Hey, Henery Li. Dun be shy even if your English is not that good. Be bold at all times! I see your patent endeavour, and please continue with your excellent contribution. ttyl 'cos I'm rather busy with my future studies right now... ;-) -- Jerry Crimson Mann 15:26, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

This is a good one: CHINESENAME (CHINESECHARACTER, lit. "CHINESELIT") :-D -- Jerry Crimson Mann 16:32, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Hakka : I

Thanks for adding the Unicode 4/Ext.B character 𠊎 in the Hakka (linguistics) page. I didn't think it was there, but now I'm very pleased it can be represented as a single character. Dylanwhs 23:51, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

The map for UC and RC

Hello Henry thanks so much for preparing the map and it looks really nice. :-D — Instantnood 20:06, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Map for Kwai Tsing District constituencies

The map is so great. :-) — Instantnood 07:28, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

Ah yes it's electoral, not electorial. :-) — Instantnood 07:29, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

Can you create similar maps for other districts too? :-D — Instantnood 13:16, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Double redirects

Please be reminded to fix double redirects after you've moved a page. Thank you. :-) — Instantnood 13:16, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

List of Hong Kong-related topics

Hello. Please be reminded to add new articles to the list. :-D — Instantnood 16:27, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Tartan track

See tarmac vs. tartan ^ ^v. freshgavin 05:11, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

See my reply

My apologies! They may be the 'leaders in track surfacing for 50 years' but I hadn't heard of them : ). Thanks for pointing out my mistake.  freshgavin 23:45, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

New stub types

You may be interested to take a look at WP:WSS, WP:WSS/P, WP:WSS/D and WP:WSS/C. Underpopulated stub types could be deleted. :-) — Instantnood 16:06, 22 October 2005 (UTC) Replied

Of course I'd help populate them. Meanwhile please be reminded to file it at WP:WSS/D. For the next time please propose at WP:WSS/P first before creating one. Thanks. :-D — Instantnood 16:17, 22 October 2005 (UTC)